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The Lans Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$432k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$676kHealth$583kFood & Nutrition$349kHuman Services$309kEducation$255kReligion$238kHousing & Shelter$69kArts & Culture$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $112k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BELOIT LIBRARY FOUNDATION$250,000
STATELINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$56,300
FIDELTY CHARITABLE$55,500
CARITAS FOUNDATION$20,000
BELOIT MEALS ON WHEELS$15,000
OLD STONE CHURCH$15,000
BELOIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
BELOIT REGIONAL HOSPICE$5,000
ROCK TRAIL COALITION$5,000
VETS ROLL$2,725
GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER$2,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $358k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WI & NORTHERN IL: $75k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WI & NORTHERN IL: $60k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WI & NORTHERN IL: $60k → 10%GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER: $2k → 15%GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER: $2k → 15%GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER: $2k → 15%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER BELOIT: $35k → 10%GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER: $1k → 15%GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER: $1k → 15%GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER: $1k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WI & NORTHERN IL: $25k → 10%GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER: $1k → 15%STATELINE FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 10%GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER: $1k → 15%GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER: $2k → 15%STATELINE FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER BELOIT: $10k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER BELOIT: $10k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER BELOIT: $10k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WI & NORTHERN IL: $6k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER BELOIT: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 14 repeat orgs$393k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$2.0M
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+16%

Still filing today

79%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHealthPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BM
    Beloit Meals on Wheels Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $305k · revenue +18%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $226k · revenue +243%
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER BELOIT INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $69k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • TW
    THE WISCONSIN AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -18%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $12k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Beloit Health System Inc

Beloit Health System provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, disability, age or ability to pay. During 2024, the System's Hospital served over 4,600 inpatients including newborns and provided…

Health
2
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

3
Bethany-St Joseph Corporation

The corporation's stated mission is to provide services to the aged, infirmed and chronically ill persons without regard to poverty or riches of the recipient of the services provided, and to foster ecumenical cooperation between people of…

4
Feeding Wisconsin Inc

Our vision is a hunger-free wisconsin and our mission is to help our food banks and partners fight hunger, improve health and strengthen local communities so that everybody in wisconsin has access to the food and benefits they need to…

Food & Nutrition
5
Family Service Madison Inc

Our mission: providing human services to instill hope and promote wellness in our community.

6
Chamber of Commerce - Greater Beloit

Chamber of commerce to support, ancourage and engage in activities that make the greater Beloit area a better place to live and do business.

Education
7
Wisconsin Masonic Home Inc

Wisconsin masonic home, inc., sponsored by the masonic fraternity, provides for the social, physical, and spiritual needs of older adults through high quality housing and services.

Human Services
8
Beloit Health System Auxiliary Inc

Providing support to Beloit Health System and related Foundation

Health
9
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
10
Food Pantry of Waukesha County Inc

The food pantry serving waukesha county provides food, hope, and dignity to county residents in need, and advocates to increase awareness of hunger through community partnerships.

11
Villa St Benedict

See schedule o.the corporation was created and organized to own, maintain, operate and conduct facilities for the long-term and congregate care, and assisted and independent living to the elderly in a single campus community, as well as to…

Housing & Shelter
12
St Coletta of Wisconsin Inc

Inspired by the franciscan values of compassion, dignity and respect, we support individuals with diverse and unique abilities to achieve their highest quality of life, personal growth and spiritual awareness.the vision of st. coletta of…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Beloit Inc and the most unlike its peers is Caritas Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELTY CHARITABLE — $372,500 · OtherFIDELTY CHARITABLEBELOIT LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherBELOIT LIBRARY FOUNDATIONBELOIT REGIONAL HOSPICE INC — $117,500 · OtherBELOIT REGIONAL HOSPICE INCOLD STONE CHURCH — $105,000 · OtherOLD STONE CHURCHCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS — $100,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN ILLINOISBELOIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $57,500 · OtherBELOIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY+4 more — $45,000 · OtherBELOIT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $465,000 · HealthBELOIT HEALTH SYSTEM…FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC — $226,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES…FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER BELOIT INC — $69,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE …STATELINE FAMILY YMCA OF BELOIT — $50,000 · Human ServicesSTATELINE FAMIL…GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER — $13,000 · Human ServicesTHE STATELINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $203,205 · PhilanthropyTHE STATELINE …CARITAS FOUNDATION — $132,500 · PhilanthropyCARITAS FOUNDA…Beloit Meals on Wheels Inc — $304,500 · Food & NutritionBeloit Meals o…SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $17,500 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST…VETSROLL INC — $26,725 · Public BenefitTHE WISCONSIN AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · Education
Other$1,047,500Health$465,000Human Services$358,000Philanthropy$335,705Food & Nutrition$322,000Public Benefit$26,725Education$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBELOIT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $465,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetBeloit Meals on Wheels Inc — $304,500 over 6y, 14% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC — $226,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTHE STATELINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $203,205 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetCARITAS FOUNDATION — $132,500 over 7y, 29% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER BELOIT INC — $69,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetBELOIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $57,500 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetSTATELINE FAMILY YMCA OF BELOIT — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF STEVENS POINT — $27,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetVETSROLL INC — $26,725 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER — $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BELOIT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Beloit Meals on Wheels Inc
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC
  • Who funds THE STATELINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CARITAS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER BELOIT INC
  • Who funds BELOIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds STATELINE FAMILY YMCA OF BELOIT
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF STEVENS POINT
  • Who funds VETSROLL INC
  • Who funds THE WISCONSIN AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI
  • Who funds GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Morse Col Robert H Fdn Tr · Neese Family Foundation Inc · The Stateline Community Foundation Inc · Hendricks Family Foundation Inc · Regal Beloit Charitable Foundation · United Way Blackhawk Region Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Lans Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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